Wealth is Extra Than Priceless Possessions & Cash
by Filip Telibasa, CFP®, Benzina Wealth
Wealth… what a lovely phrase, don’t you agree? It rolls off the tongue and offers us a way of satisfaction because it’s closely related to happiness (assume, Scrooge McDuck taking a swim amongst his gold cash). For many people, wealth is the goal of our being, at the very least in a monetary sense. Oxford defines wealth as “an abundance of helpful possessions or cash.” Though I agree it is a good, straight ahead definition – I ask you to not take it at face worth and look inside your self for the true, deeper that means.
Most individuals like good issues – a lovely residence on the water with a personal dock, luxurious autos, properly engineered watches, top quality diamonds, customized tailor-made clothes – the listing goes on. Do this stuff straight signify wealth? On the floor, probably – although, possibly not if we dig a bit deeper. Why do we wish these items? Is it for societal standing or is it as a result of we worth the best way they make us really feel? I imagine the latter and right here is why.
Cash… Can Purchase Happiness?
by Keith Spencer, CFP®, Spencer Monetary Planning, LLC
We have all heard the age-old adage that cash cannot purchase happiness. And general, we’d in all probability all agree with the intent behind the saying, that we shouldn’t be consumed with the endless quest to amass more cash. That purchasing extra or higher possessions is not going to fulfill us the best way that relationships, connection, private progress, and many others., can.
However I feel we are able to additionally all agree that we is perhaps only a smidgen happier if we had more cash, am I proper or am I proper?
You could have heard the joke that cash cannot purchase happiness, however it will probably purchase me a ship. I hear that. However in all seriousness, what’s the correlation between happiness and cash? Are they completely separate issues, are they intrinsically associated, or is the correlation possibly someplace in between?
Effectively, at present’s menu options an entree of some ways in which I encourage my purchasers to pursue happiness with their spending. And for dessert, an fascinating research that reveals maybe cash can typically purchase happiness. Yum.
Construct Some Extra Room for Error into Your Funds
by Meg Bartelt, CFP®, Move Monetary Planning, LLC
How are you feeling? After the chaos of the previous few weeks and months within the markets, the financial system, and nationwide politics? After the final couple tough years within the tech employment scene?
When issues are going properly in your life and profession and the markets and the financial system, you in all probability don’t assume a lot about having “room for error” in your funds. Error, what error?!
Welp, I’m guessing so-called Latest Occasions have made “error” very apparent, and the thought of creating room for it’d sound fairly good, eh?
Three tales from my life in simply the final two weeks have made me take into consideration how helpful “room for error” is. [To give credit where credit is (probably) due, I think I got this specific phrase from the engaging, thought-provoking book The Psychology of Money.]
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